Pandora's Tower - Video game reviews round-up

Pandora's Tower sees hero Aeron on a quest to prevent his girlfriend Elena
from turning into a beast. All in a day's work for a former knight, then. To
do this, he uses his magical chain to whip, pull, tear and rend his way
through 12 towers, slaying beasts and solving puzzles as he goes. Master
Flesh, obtained from the game's 12 creative bosses, is the key to lifting
Elena's curse.

It's not a straight-forward path though. A counter warning of Elena's pending
transformation will often lead you to head back to her in order to whip up a
grisly meal. Thanks to some excellent dungeon design, this backtracking
works as a great mechanic rather than an annoyance.

Motion controls work great too, with Aeron's main weapon, his chain,
controlled by the pointer. Enemies can be bound, dragged or whipped to the
point of defeat, and the chain also comes in handy for traversing the towers
and conquering the navigational puzzles.

With an excellent time-management mechanic, some great dungeon design and an
emotive love story at its heart, Pandora's Tower is an action-RPG well worth
checking out.

Rating: 4/5 You'll like this if you like: The Legend of Zelda,
Shadow of the Colossus, consuming monster flesh.